The government’s lobbying review is a rare chance to fix a transparency regime that has fallen behind international standards. Our submission calls for a comprehensive lobbying register, tougher enforcement, stronger disclosure rules, and reforms to rebuild public trust in decision-making.
A damning report released today by the Public Accounts Committee reveals the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) alarming failures to protect taxpayer money from economic crime and corruption.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Illicit Finance Summit delay should be used to launch bold UK leadership against dirty money The delay to the UK’s Illicit Finance Summit should now be used...
Today the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Ultra Electronics Holdings Limited (Ultra Electronics) entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), with the defence and security company paying almost £15 million to resolve a long-running bribery probe. This penalty includes a £10 million penalty plus £4.8 million to cover the SFO’s costs.
For more information, please contact:fwood@burness.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 April 2026 Ahead of the UK-hosted Illicit Finance Summit – a groundbreaking opportunity to tackle ‘tainted gold’ flowing through the global...
As the world faces a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, and the UK government warns that “every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse”,...
Today the Serious Fraud Office dropped a decade-old corruption case against former executives at London Mining PLC and their alleged ‘fixer’, exposing new problems with the agency’s legacy disclosure software...
The government has this week announced its intention to deliver the most ambitious reforms to policing in decades with the creation of a National Police Service (NPS). While there are...
